Tony Clark
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Mail code: 2780Campus: Poly
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Tony Clark is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, first-generation college graduate, and teaching professor who bridges military experience with academic scholarship. Drawing from the humanities and social sciences, he teaches courses in film studies, U.S. literatures and history, and specializes in combat in film, combat trauma, and film as history. With 32 years of experience, Clark has published 24 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and delivered over 40 presentations. In 2023, he served as a visiting combat instructor and higher-education consultant for the final scout sniper course at Camp Pendleton. Clark is also the Chief Administrative Officer and Vice President of History and Education for the USMC Scout Sniper Association and a founding director of the Marine Scout Sniper Heritage Foundation. His work brings together military service and scholarly inquiry to shed new light on the intersection of military experience, culture, and academic study.
- PhD American Studies, University of Kansas
- MA History, Northwestern Missouri State University
- BA History, Graceland University
My research sits at the crossroads of veterans studies, war and culture studies, and the psychology of oppression and resilience. While my community-engaged research with Marine scout snipers and veterans focuses on a war memorial and archives project, my academic research builds on my earlier empirical investigations into gender and racial microaggressions to explore vetphobia -- the structural, institutional, and interpersonal dynamics that marginalize veterans and offload the civic costs of war. One key expression of vetphobia is vetphobic microaggressions -- subtle, often unconscious slights that stereotype, trivialize, or erase veterans. My forthcoming work, "Suckers and Losers: Microaggressions that Target Military Veterans & the Unseen Burdens of Military Service," marks this turn into vetphobia and vetphobic microaggressions. I also am building an empirical research program through my Vetphobia & Vetphobic Microaggressions Research Lab
Military & Veterans Studies Leadership & Research Collective (principal investigator for its three initiatives):
- Sergeant Major Gilbert Johnson Undergraduate Peer Mentoring Collaborative (UPMC).
- Gunnery Sergeant Walter Cook Marine Scout Sniper Oral History Project.
- Vetphobia & Vetphobic Microaggressions Research Lab.
peer-reviewed articles & essays published in refereed journals
- Kim, Y., Dimberg, S. K., Clark, D. A., & Spanierman, L. B. (2024). Gender microaggressions that target women in the U.S. military: Effects on depression and the moderating role of rank and coping. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 48(1), 108-120. doi:10.1177/03616843231202706
- Spanierman, L. B., Clark, D. A., & Kim, Y. (2021). Reviewing racial microaggressions research: Documenting targets' experiences, harmful sequelae, and resistance strategies. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(5), 1037-1059. doi:10.1177/17456916211019944
- Dimberg, S. K., Clark, D. A., Spanierman L. B., & VanDaalen, R. A. (2021). "School shouldn't be something you have to survive": Microaggressions targeting queer women in an urban Canadian university. Journal of Homosexuality, 68(5), 709-732. doi:10.1080/00918369.2019.1661729
- Clark, D. A., Kleiman, S., Spanierman, L. B., Isaac, P., & Poolokasingham, G. (2014). "Do you live in a tee pee?" Aboriginal students' experiences with racial microaggressions in Canada. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 7(2), 112-125. doi:10.1037/a0036573
- Clark, D. A., Spanierman, L. B., Reed, T. D., Soble, J. R., & Cabana, S. (2011). Documenting weblog expressions of racial microaggressions that target American Indians. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 4(1), 39-50. doi:10.1037/a0021762
- Clark, D. A., & Reed, T. D. (2010). The future we wish to see: Racialized communities studies and white racial anxiety and resentment. Black Scholar, 40(4), 37-49. doi:10.1080/00064246.2010.11413531
- Clark, D. A. & Powell, M. (2008). Resisting exile in the "land of the free": Indigenous groundwork at colonial intersections. American Indian Quarterly, 32(1), 1-15.
- Clark, D. A. (2007). "They hate us.... envy us.... want us only if we're dead," or, Black Hawk lives for your sins. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100(3), 268-78.
- Clark, D. A. (2007). Decolonization matters. Wicazo Sa Review, 22(1), 101-18.
- Clark, D. A. & Yetman, N. (2005). "To feel the drumming earth come upward": Indigenizing the American studies discipline, field, movement. American Studies, 46(3-4), 7-21.
- Clark, D. A. (2005). Indigenous voice and vision as commodity in a mass-consumption society: The colonial politics of public opinion polling. American Indian Quarterly, 29(1), 228-238.
- Clark, D. A. (2001). Breaking iron bonds, elucidating fluid boundaries: 'Indians' in American studies. American Quarterly, 53(1), 156-164.
- Clark, D. A. (2000). "The number of tribes...right for him or her": Romancing imaginary "Indians" in On the Rez. American Indian Quarterly, 24(2), 299-305.
- Clark, D. A. (2000). "This side of the cornfield: Reform activism at Graceland College, 1965-1973." Annals of Iowa, 59(1), 35-69. doi:10.17077/0003-4827.10319
refereed book chapters
- Spanierman, L. B., & Clark, D. A. (2023). Racial microaggressions: Empirical research that documents targets’ experiences (pp. 231-249). In Diskriminierungs, N., & Polat, S. (Eds.), Rassismusforschung I: Theoretische und interdisziplinäre perspektiven (Vol. 73). Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag.
- Spanierman, L. B., & Clark, D. A. (2021). Taking White racial emotions seriously: Revisiting the costs of racism to White Americans. In D. Austin & B. Bowser (Eds.), Impacts of racism on White Americans (pp. 115-136). New York, NY: Palgrave.
- Clark, D. A., & Spanierman, L. B. (2018). "I didn't know that was racist": Costs of racial microaggressions to Whites in the United States. In G. C. Torino et al. (Eds.), Microaggression theory: Influence and implications (pp. 138-155). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
- Clark, D. A. (2014). "Rationally designed to further Indian self-government": American Indians and affirmative action. In J. I. Ross (Ed.), American Indians at risk (pp. 631-647). Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.
- Spanierman, L. B., Garriott, P., & Clark, D. A. (2013). Whiteness and social class: Intersections and implications. In W. M. Liu (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of social class in counseling (pp. 394-410). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- Clark, D. A. (2007). American Indian Peoples. In B. H. Johnson (Ed.), Making of the American West: People and perspectives (pp. 19-45). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
- Clark, D. A. (2005). Wa a o, wa ba ski na me ska ta! "Indian" mascots and the pathology of anti-indigenous racism. In A. Bass (Ed.), In the game: Race, identity, and sports in the twentieth century (pp. 137-166). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Clark, D. A. (2004). Not the end of the stories, not the end of the songs: Visualizing, signifying, counter-colonizing. In D. A. Mihesuah & A. C. Wilson, Indigenizing the academy: Transforming scholarship and empowering communities (pp. 218-232). Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press.
- Clark, D. A., & Nagel, J. (2001) White men, red masks: Appropriations of "Indian" manhood in imagined Wests. M. Basso, D. Garceau, & L. McCall (Eds.), Across the great divide: Cultures of manhood in the American West (pp. 109-130). New York, NY: Routledge.
- Clark, D. A., & Nagel, J. (2001). U.S. American Indian activist movements. In D. Champagne (Ed.), The Native North American almanac: A reference work on Native North Americans in the United States and Canada (pp. 565-592). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research.
Courses
2025 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
HST 395 | Combat in Film |
ENG 395 | Combat in Film |
MVS 395 | Combat in Film |
FMP 395 | Combat in Film |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
2025 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 230 | Introduction to Film Studies |
ENG 230 | Introduction to Film Studies |
HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
HST 310 | Film as History |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
HST 395 | Combat in Film |
ENG 395 | Combat in Film |
MVS 395 | Combat in Film |
FMP 395 | Combat in Film |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
CAP 316 | Combat Trauma |
CAP 316 | Combat Trauma |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
ENG 230 | Introduction to Film Studies |
ENG 230 | Introduction to Film Studies |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
HST 310 | Film as History |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
HST 395 | Combat in Film |
ENG 395 | Combat in Film |
VTS 395 | Combat in Film |
FMP 395 | Combat in Film |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
CAP 494 | Special Topics |
CAP 494 | Special Topics |
VTS 494 | Special Topics |
VTS 494 | Special Topics |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
PSY 304 | Effective Thinking |
CAP 494 | Special Topics |
VTS 494 | Special Topics |
VTS 494 | Special Topics |
CAP 494 | Special Topics |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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CAP 220 | Self in Multicultural Society |
CAP 220 | Self in Multicultural Society |
PSY 304 | Effective Thinking |
CAP 220 | Self in Multicultural Society |
PSY 493 | Honors Thesis |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
HST 395 | Combat in Film |
ENG 395 | Combat in Film |
VTS 395 | Combat in Film |
HST 395 | Combat in Film |
ENG 395 | Combat in Film |
CAP 220 | Self in Multicultural Society |
CAP 220 | Self in Multicultural Society |
FMP 395 | Combat in Film |
FMP 395 | Combat in Film |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
PSY 304 | Effective Thinking |
HST 394 | Special Topics |
ENG 394 | Special Topics |
VTS 394 | Special Topics |
VTS 394 | Special Topics |
PSY 304 | Effective Thinking |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 325 | Immigration & Ethnicity in US |
HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
PSY 304 | Effective Thinking |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 394 | Special Topics |
HST 306 | Studies in US History |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
HST 340 | American Military History |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
PSY 304 | Effective Thinking |
HST 394 | Special Topics |
ENG 394 | Special Topics |
VTS 394 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 325 | Immigration & Ethnicity in US |
HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
PSY 304 | Effective Thinking |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 394 | Special Topics |
HST 306 | Studies in US History |
ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
HST 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
PSY 304 | Effective Thinking |
Consulting Editor, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education (2014-present)
Marine Scout Sniper Heritage Foundation Founding Board of Directors (2023) & Board of Directors (2024-present)
USMC Scout Sniper Association Board of Directors (2022-25, 2025-26)
Marine Scout Sniper Heritage Foundation Chief Administrative Officer (2024-present) & Member, Marine Scout Sniper War Memorial Committee and Fallen Marine Scout Sniper Research Subcommittee
USMC Scout Sniper Association Chief Administrative Officer (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) and Vice President of History & Education (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Veterans Studies Association Member, Academic Engagement & Small Grants Committee Member (2023-24); proposal reviewer, 2024 Veterans in Society Conference Operations Subcommittee (2023-24); member, Social Media and External Engagement (2024-present) Sub-Committee; and member, 2026 Veterans in Society Conference Planning Committee (2024-present).
TAPS, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Military Mentor (2022-present)